Book Launch — November 2, 2012

Book Launch

For those of you who live in New York, I would like to invite you all to come out to the Overseas Press Club in Manhattan on Monday, November 12 for the book launch of The Last Refuge: Yemen, al-Qaeda and America’s War in Arabia.

It should be a fun, laid-back evening and I hope to see many of you there.

Neuropsych

How your eye color might increase your risk of seasonal affective disorder

Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.

13.8

The paradox of light goes beyond wave-particle duality

Light carries with it the secrets of reality in ways we cannot completely understand.

L&D Strategy

Transfer of learning: The necessary step to make learning stick

Without a solid understanding of the factors that affect the transfer of learning, the gulf between training and job performance is difficult to bridge.

The Learning Curve

Why social design projects fail

Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.

High Culture

“Global Jukebox” database uncovers secrets from the history of music

We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.

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